Here is a collection of poems illuminating the microcosm called New York City. There is no single school or ideology represented. But here you will find inventiveness of form, content, and subject matter. Some of the language sounds like it's from conversations overheard. Other poems offer something like a wild new language or a reinvention of an old one.

Here are poems from Anselm Berrigan, Todd Colby, Brenda Coultas, Jordan Davis, Maggie Estep, Amy Fusselman, Mimi Goese, Kenneth Goldsmith, Mitch Highfill, Ben Marcus, Sharon Mesmer, Amanda Nazario, Maggie Nelson, Michael Portnoy, Lee Ranaldo, Carl Hancock Rux, Prageeta Sharma, Beau Sia, Edwin Torres, Marianne Vitale, and Mac Wellman -- poets proving that poetry is alive and well in New York City.